Kenneth Turan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Looks #Television #Definitions
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Sports #Baseball #Games
What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Thinking #Realization #Violence
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Wise #Romance #Hollywood
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Death #Player #Action
Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Regret #Silence #Sound
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ© practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Mold #Directors #Classic
"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Stars #Shopping #Feet
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.
-- Kenneth Turan

#Joy #Get Better #Connections

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
I watch a lot of television. I always have.
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
There is no dignity in television.
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Kenneth Turan famous quotes

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